Quote Originally Posted by caster51 View Post
Yayoi are not only sino-korean.
Ainu is the Japanese isolated origin as a Jomon
Strange that the video is flipped horizontally, and that she was playing a sanshin and singing in Okinawan. I had to look up Rimi Natsukawa to see that she's an Okinawan folksinger. It'd be nice if you explained why you decided to put up the video, other than to have an Okinawan say "Oh we look like Ainu!"

anyway
"Ainu is recognised as indigenous people of Japan " makes more discrimination matters
nobody knows who ainu is in mainland
my ancester might be an ainu
I understand Japan should value Ainu culture and tradition more. or Japan should make a resevation for ainu?
Ainu isn't a displaced minority (anymore), there aren't enough left to rationalize a reservation. That aside, reservations themselves are a pretty terrible solution to an indigenous minority; American history can attest to that.

only ainu is indigenous people of Japan?
it is not.. how about jomon ppi
I think it is revers discrimination. it gives ainu many privileges
the view from Yamato imperial, Kamakura samurais were emishi ppl. that is . Azuma ebishu(戎＝蝦夷)
suntory's kumaso scandal
http://nonjatta.blogspot.com/2007/04...so-effect.html
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%...99%BA%E8%A8%80
Without getting into the various contributors to the modern Japanese gene pool, I think the point is that Ainu have now officially been recognized as one of the original indigenous peoples of Japan; this hardly affords them special treatment, especially since the tribe has been mostly diffused into the general population. I'm not sure what reverse discrimination you're talking about. I think the main point here is that the Ainu are officially recognized. All this really calls for is for the fact to be taught to children, and maybe preserve some of that ancient knowledge and culture for future generations, through cultural centers like the Mahoron Museum in Fukushima ( which I've been lucky enough to experience myself: http://www.mahoron.fks.ed.jp/ )

I think the world should accept the Japanese is recognised as indigenous people of far east.

Typical Japanese homeless
If you watch the Japanese carefuly, you can see the 5 parson in 10ppls look like an ainu
If the Japanese doesn't shave the beard, the half of them looks like Ainu
Knd of a disparaging comparison between the Ainu and the homeless. Maybe the homeless are the true indigenous people of Japan?